Jonah goldberg, the conservative author and longtime fixture at National Review, used to have a go-to metaphor he’d deploy whenever he found himself defending one of his noisier compatriots in the right-wing media.
“I had this whole spiel about how the conservative movement is like a symphony,” he told me in a recent interview. “You need the fine woodwinds like Yuval Levin or Irving Kristol, but you also need that guy with the big gong who just smashes out the notes.” Sure, the talk-radio ranters were shouty and crass, he would reason, but they had their part to play.
These days, Goldberg has abandoned such rationalizations. “We’re holding a lot of symphonies where it’s basically all gong,” he said. “I didn’t think the gong would swamp the woodwinds quite the way it did.” Looking back, he admits even he was part of the problem: “I could be quite loud.”
Nya iOS 26 gör dina AirPods smartare – laddningsnotiser direkt i iPhone
AirPods blir ännu smartare med iOS 26. Utöver nya funktioner som fjärrstyrning av kameran och sömnavkänning som pausar media förbättrar Apple även laddningsupplevelsen. Din iPhone kan nu påminna dig när AirPods håller på att få slut på batteri. Varningen kan…
0 kommentarer